Greg Loarie

Director, Pesticide Advocacy

California Office

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Greg Loarie

Director, Pesticide Advocacy California Office

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Miranda Fox
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
mfox@earthjustice.org

Greg Loarie is the director of Earthjustice’s pesticide advocacy, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the organization’s work to protect people, ecosystems, and agriculture from toxic pesticides.

He is based out of the California Regional Office’s San Francisco location.

Greg started his career at Earthjustice as a summer law clerk in 2000 and has never looked back. He grew up in rural northern California, did time in southern California as an undergraduate at U.C. San Diego, and received a law degree from U.C. San Francisco College of the Law.

Media Inquiries

Miranda Fox
Public Affairs and Communications Strategist
mfox@earthjustice.org

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CA

Quoted in the News

April 12, 2024

Los Angeles Times

‘It’s environmental racism’: Monterey County sued over farm chemicals near mostly Latino schools

“Parents and teachers certainly have a right to know when toxic pesticides are being sprayed right next to their schools, and this process needs to be public and needs to be meaningful. What we really want, at the end of the day, is we want the poisoning to stop. We want someone to be addressing the fact that cumulative exposure to these pesticides, year after year, is poisoning our kids.”
April 19, 2021

San Francisco Chronicle

EPA wants to leave Trump rules on insecticide in place while studying impact on bees

"There are lots of alternatives out there that are lower risk."

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